Word: contrast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ordered a halt to fluoridation of the city's water. Symptoms falsely attributed to the tooth-saving fluoridation process: "excessive thirst, spine becomes stiff, nausea, mental alertness deteriorates, nails become brittle and peel, vision becomes blurred." One hysterical woman phoned the mayor: "People are dying like flies." In contrast, the U.S. Public Health Service reported soberly and scientifically on the tenth year of fluoridation in Grand Rapids, Mich.: it has reduced children's tooth decay 60%, with no ill effects...
...maternal instincts awake immediately upon the arrival of the baby. The play does not hide the unnatural and even pathetic aspects of the monastic life, but it treats the convent and its inhabitants with such tenderness and compassion that the Church itself would probably approve. Especially moving is the contrast presented in the second act, when the young Teresa says goodbye to the nuns who have raised her and introduces her finance to them. The nuns have long since renounced all interest in men and do not regret it, and yet they understand Teresa's feelings perfectly...
...other roles were less successful. Jacquelyn Zollo was disappointing as Teresa. She lacked the spontaneous, gay, zestful spirit that the young girl should bring into the convent to contrast with the cool resignation of the nuns. In her interpretation of the role, lines and actions that should have seemed perfectly natural appeared as blatant overacting. No one, for example, could envision her climbing a tree, as Teresa is supposed to have done. Miss Zollo's uninteresting performance unfortunately made the second act much less successful than the first--made it, in fact, quite dull in spots...
...cause of increased parking in these forbidden places is the rash of tickets that Cambridge police have been distributing recently to cars parked overnight on streets near the Square. In contrast with Harvard's winter sessions, when all students must register their cars with the University and are thus susceptible to University parking tags, the administration now has no way of knowing who owns the illegally-parked cars. Consequently, it could not enforce payment of any University tickets it distributed...
...said, the play deals with the contrast between what things are said to be and what things are, between words and evidence. Drama critics are no less immune than medical experts from Moliere's campaign; so don't rely on my words, but go to Tufts for the evidence...